Wouldn't it be nice if there was only one day a year that people were wrong on the Internet? Unfortunately, that's simply not the case. And the problem doesn't stop with fake news. (Although that in itself is such a problem that The Washington Post puts out a fake news roundup every Friday.) There are more insidious problems in media: biased wording, overly general, overly simplistic or unsupported claims, and false assertions. These are just a few of the things that one can flag on the new social media platform, Fiskkit, which recently won the 2015 Launch Fest Social Impact Award. Read More

(In an experiment, we're going to be pulling selected items from the Daily Digest and posting them as stand-alone posts. Good idea? Bad idea? Let us know in the comments.) News Fakery: "McCain Advisor Martin ... Read More